Finally have some time to breath now that I'm mostly done school. Decided to keep this project simple for the weekend. As the title says, I was attempting to make a Rob Loveless style city knife, but decided to go the minimalist route a la
Mike Lovett and go without scales on this one and round out the handle section instead. Again, this one was made using O1 tool steel , but I had to improvise on the grind a bit since it was 1/8" and I needed something on the order of 1/16" and ground past the spine so that it would be thin enough to be a good cutter ( if I recall it was called a rebate grind but don't quote me on that). Unfortunately I couldn't finish it today as I found out that we had run out of propane, so no heat treatment yet, but hopefully next week I can heat treat it, play around with the finish a bit and make a leather sheath with plenty of pics!
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| My CAD mockup - this is probably the smallest knife I've made. |
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| Closeup of the rebate grind - thinned down the original stock by approximately half. |
